How abundant are termites?
While termites have a restricted distribution compared to the other social insects (ants, bees and wasps are found throughout tropical and temperate regions), what they lack in range they make up for in numbers. Termites can be extremely abundant in the tropical savannas and along with ants are the most abundant insects found in savanna soils . Savanna habitat covered in the large nests of spinifex termites, Nasutitermes triodiae, may support a few hundred tonnes of termite per square kilometer – far greater than the weight of cattle supported per square kilometre on similar soils.
